resolver, watcher: a domain's nameservers are only its own delegation (closes #222)

When a domain's parent zone's servers answer NXDOMAIN, LookupNS returns
ErrNXDomain. The watcher then saves the domain with no nameservers and
nxdomain set, shown on the dashboard and in /api/v1/status, asks for none
of its records and removes those saved, so its old nameservers go in one
NS Change. A domain with no delegation of its own gets an empty set and
its records are still asked at the zone it is in.
FindAuthoritativeNameservers moves to a parent name only on one of those
two answers; when the servers do not answer, it returns the error. After
an upgrade, a domain without its own delegation that was saved with its
parent zone's nameservers gets one NS Change; the README says so.

Model: opus-5-5

TODO.md

@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ trial run of the finished image: https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/dnswatcher/issues/149
 
 - 2026-10-02: a domain that does not exist is shown so, with no nameservers; no
   name gets a parent's nameservers when its own did not answer (closes #222).
+- 2026-10-02: the refused-query test sends one query to four operators' public
+  resolvers in turn until one replies, not eight to one operator (closes #251).
 - 2026-10-02: a name removed from `DNSWATCHER_TARGETS` leaves the state, and so
   the dashboard and API, at startup, before the first check (closes #223).
 - 2026-10-02: a record type whose query to a nameserver fails keeps its previous

internal/resolver/resolver_test.go

@@ -490,48 +490,45 @@ func TestQueryNameserver_Refused(t *testing.T) {
 	assert.Equal(t, "server returned REFUSED", resp.Error)
 }
 
-// TestQueryNameserverIP_RecursiveResolverRefused asks Quad9, a public
+// TestQueryServers_RecursiveResolverRefused passes a public recursive
-// recursive resolver, about google.com at both of its addresses. Quad9
+// resolver to QueryServers as the server of google.com. These resolvers
-// refuses a query that does not ask for recursion and answers one that
+// refuse a query that does not ask for recursion and answer one that
-// does. The resolver never asks for recursion, so it must be reported
+// does. The resolver never asks for recursion, so the query must be
-// as refusing, never as answering.
+// reported as refused, never answered. Each resolver is run by a
-func TestQueryNameserverIP_RecursiveResolverRefused(t *testing.T) {
+// different operator, and they are asked in turn until one replies, so
+// one operator not answering does not fail the test.
+func TestQueryServers_RecursiveResolverRefused(t *testing.T) {
 	t.Parallel()
 
 	r := newTestResolver(t)
-
+	resolvers := []string{
-	for _, ip := range []string{"9.9.9.9", "149.112.112.112"} {
+		"64.6.64.6", "185.222.222.222", "4.2.2.1", "9.9.9.9",
-		var resp *resolver.NameserverResponse
-
-		livednstest.Retry(
-			t,
-			"QueryNameserverIP("+ip+", google.com)",
-			func(ctx context.Context) error {
-				var err error
-
-				resp, err = r.QueryNameserverIP(
-					ctx, ip, ip, "google.com",
-				)
-				if err != nil {
-					return err
-				}
-
-				// A timeout or a network error is no reply at all.
-				if resp.Status == resolver.StatusTimeout ||
-					strings.HasPrefix(resp.Error, "network error") {
-					return fmt.Errorf(
-						"%w: %s: %s",
-						livednstest.ErrNoAnswer, ip, resp.Error,
-					)
-				}
-
-				return nil
-			},
-		)
-
-		assert.Equal(t, resolver.StatusError, resp.Status, ip)
-		assert.Equal(t, "server returned REFUSED", resp.Error, ip)
 	}
+
+	var err error
+
+	livednstest.Retry(
+		t,
+		"QueryServers(public recursive resolvers, google.com)",
+		func(ctx context.Context) error {
+			for _, ip := range resolvers {
+				_, err = r.QueryServers(
+					ctx, []string{ip}, "google.com.", "google.com.",
+					dns.TypeA,
+				)
+
+				// A refusal or an answer is a reply; anything else may
+				// be no reply at all, so the next resolver is asked.
+				if err == nil || errors.Is(err, resolver.ErrRefused) {
+					return nil
+				}
+			}
+
+			return fmt.Errorf("%w: %w", livednstest.ErrNoAnswer, err)
+		},
+	)
+
+	require.ErrorIs(t, err, resolver.ErrRefused)
 }
 
 // googleNameserverIPv4s returns the IPv4 addresses of google.com's

internal/watcher/watcher_test.go

@@ -551,6 +551,50 @@ func TestDomainThatDoesNotExist(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+// TestDomainWithNoDelegationOfItsOwn checks a domain with no delegation
+// of its own: codeberg.page is on the public suffix list, so
+// docs.codeberg.page is a domain, but the .page servers delegate only
+// codeberg.page, whose servers answer for it. It is saved with no
+// nameservers and without nxdomain, and its records, asked at the
+// codeberg.page servers, are saved. Those are testSmallDomain's two
+// nameservers; github.io, the zone of the README's example, has eight.
+func TestDomainWithNoDelegationOfItsOwn(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	const domain = "docs.codeberg.page"
+
+	cfg := defaultTestConfig(t)
+	cfg.Domains = []string{domain}
+
+	var deps *testDeps
+
+	livednstest.Retry(t, "watcher checks", func(ctx context.Context) error {
+		var w *watcher.Watcher
+
+		w, deps = newTestWatcher(t, cfg)
+
+		err := checkOnce(ctx, w, deps)
+
+		// A domain saved as not existing has no records to wait for;
+		// the checks below fail on it.
+		if ds, ok := deps.state.GetDomainState(domain); ok && ds.NXDomain {
+			return nil
+		}
+
+		return err
+	})
+
+	ds, _ := deps.state.GetDomainState(domain)
+	if ds.NXDomain || len(ds.Nameservers) != 0 {
+		t.Errorf("saved nxdomain %v and nameservers %v, want false and none",
+			ds.NXDomain, ds.Nameservers)
+	}
+
+	if _, ok := deps.state.GetHostnameState(domain); !ok {
+		t.Errorf("no records saved for %s", domain)
+	}
+}
+
 func TestNSAddressChangeDetection(t *testing.T) {
 	t.Parallel()